I understand where Roadking Larry is comming from. I was the fleet-captain racing for one year with our club. He does need to be congratulated on accepting the job. We had raced for approximately 6 years and continued to race while I was in that position. What I found was there were a lot of people more than willing to help me. We wrote the SI's and changed a couple of things that were causing problems in past races. I immeadiately got emails from older wiser racers saying things like "do you mean" or we tried that once and here was the results. One thing I changed was the order of starts. First start true cruising followed by non-spinnaker and lastly spinnaker. At the start of the first race I saw that was not a good idea. The slower accelerating large boats coming to and crossing the line were constantly dodging the quicker smaller boats. It was not safe in my opinion. I got hate mail from one spinnaker fleet captain that said he had earned the right to go first. Didn't even ask if I would reconsider. I had just posted the change back. Listen to the geezers but yu don't have to do what they say if it is not correct. You are in charge.
